One law is helping Vermont take huge strides toward a more transparent health care system, where insurance companies are held accountable for denying legitimate claims, and for spending your premium dollars on advertising and lobbying, not on health care. Thanks to a bill thought up, researched, drafted, advocated for, and supported by VPIRG and its …
Pulling back the curtain on insurance claim denials Read More »
When the Senate Government Operations Committee initially contemplated dramatically raising the contribution limits to candidates and political action committees, VPIRG organized a response that also included the LWV-VT and Ben Cohen. After threatening to oppose the bill, the committee reconsidered its position and ended up with limits much closer to those VPIRG suggested. The limits …
More sensible campaign contribution limits move forward Read More »
Some of Vermont’s most well-known advocates for campaign finance reform took issue today with a proposed bill in the state Senate that would dramatically increase the amount of money in Vermont’s political campaigns. The Senate Government Operations Committee has been working all year on legislation – S.82 – that would require increased reporting from political …
Senate bill criticized for opening the flood gates to campaign cash Read More »
The Big Clean Energy Bill–as we’re now affectionately calling H.216–contains some funding for reaching our weatherization goals and helping Vermont families and businesses switch to clean, local sources of heat like solar hot water, geothermal and wood pellets. So we’re happy to report H.216 also contains critical support for the CEDF! But we need your …
Support for Vermonters who want to go solar included in H.216 Read More »
You might have heard about VPIRG’s plan to weatherize one in four Vermont homes, save Vermonters hundreds of millions of dollars and prevent millions of tons of global warming pollution from being pumped into our atmosphere, all the while creating jobs and growing Vermont’s economy. That plan is on the ropes, but your help could …
Revive support for heating plan, with your call! Read More »
VPIRG’s been working with the Department of Vermont Care Access, who’s offering tailor-made town meeting day information kits are available at the Vermont Health Connect website. Click here to help spread the word about upcoming changes and get the information you need to start comparing health plans! The Health Benefit Exchange, required by the federal Affordable Care …
On March 1st, after weeks of testimony, the House Agriculture Committee passed H.112 (this year’s GMO labeling bill) with a vote of 8-3. While this is the first of many hurdles the bill has to clear in the legislative process, it is a very positive sign for all of us who support labeling genetically engineered foods. …
Big News! GMO Labeling Bill Passes House Ag Committee Read More »
Last week, an Entergy VP tried to convince the Public Service Board that Vermont Yankee’s troubling history of leaks and lies shouldn’t matter as the PSB deliberates whether to issue a Certificate of Public Good or “CPG,” which Entergy Louisiana needs to keep VY sputtering along). VPIRG and hundreds of our members have already weighed in, arguing …
VPIRG Gets Entergy VP To Tell the Truth, For Once Read More »
“There is now an infrastructure of outside groups and activists that has shown the ability to mobilize at least some public concern about an extremely arcane problem, dramatizing the need for better governance and the dangerous consequences of having a Senate that has functionally ceased to be a democratic body.” Find out what’s next on …
Vermont’s “green cleaning” legislation—which VPIRG helped to pass last year—earned national attention in a new report released today, entitled: “Towards Healthy Schools 2015: Progress on America’s Environmental Health Crisis for Children.” This report shows Vermont is now on the forefront of keeping our kids’ learning environments safe from toxic chemicals. You can find the full report …
VT’s “Green Cleaning” Law Highlighted in National Report Read More »
